The QA Revolution: How AI Is Rewriting the Rules of Software Quality (feat. Tanvi Mittal)

About this episode

Tanvi Mittal discusses the impact of AI on software quality and the challenges faced by engineering teams.

There’s a quiet crisis unfolding inside software engineering teams everywhere. Code is being written faster than ever — in some cases, features that once took weeks now take a single day. But here’s the uncomfortable question nobody is asking loudly enough: who’s checking the work? Tanvi Mittal (GitHub) has spent over 15 years in software quality — starting as a developer, moving into test automation, and now sitting at the sharp edge of a field being fundamentally reshaped by AI. In a recent conversation on the Snowpal Podcast, she offered a candid, street-level view of what’s actually happening inside engineering teams today.

People in this episode

Hosts: Krish Palaniappan, Varun Palaniappan

Guest: Tanvi Mittal

Topics covered

• software quality
• AI in software development
• test automation
• engineering teams
• software engineering crisis

Keywords

• software engineering
• AI
• quality assurance
• test automation
• engineering teams
• software development

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Organizations: GitHub, Snowpal Podcast

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